Sentence examples for imagine a language from inspiring English sources
According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life".
On a resolute/Pyrrhonian reading, it is emphasized that the reader is asked in the first sentence of the second paragraph whether one can actually imagine a language for one's inner experiences, for private use.
IMAGINE a language that can't be written.
The question is, Can you imagine a new language, and a new set of precepts, that are not simply a restatement of the old language and precepts that the mayor has discredited?
But the interlocutor quickly replies in the last three lines of §243 that what he is asking is whether we can imagine a private language that refers to what only the speaker can know.
My main job, anticipating work behind the camera, was to imagine a parallel visual language that might hold a candle to Shakespeare's poetry.
I've been thinking a lot about what it means to imagine using a language that is not your own.
Mr. Stoppard imagined a new language, "Dogg," in which "plank" means "ready," "block" means "next," "slab" means "O.K".
Why do you put it so oddly?"——Is he going to understand the further analysed sentence better?—This sentence, one might say, achieves the same as the ordinary one, but in a more roundabout way.— Imagine a language-game in which someone is ordered to bring certain objects which are composed of several parts, to move them about, or something else of that kind.
Sometimes Paul likes to imagine a world in which language has disappeared altogether.
In everyday language, imagine a vast still pond -- the quantum field.
